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• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  Nobody can. We can mobilize and make this happen! Help eradicate the most prevalent and preventable problem in developing areas around the ... 1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... in his class. Needless to say things got different when I got to MIT ... think it really struck me that physics was hard when I got this problem in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  complete internships or study abroad in some cases, I spent my first IAP here ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... first classroom is in a decently sized lecture hall, so I spend that time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  one can be a graceful Rheinmaiden while suspended 30 feet in the air I ... , directed by Robert Lepage. Here is some background, so you understand why I ... prelude) in the massive 4-opera cosmos-encompassing saga known as the Ring

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  " post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I ... can autonomously manipulate physical objects in unstructured ... interested in AI in the first place. I'll be lying if I say I'm not a little

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  just hope I could drop all my classes and spend all day in the lab. I learn a greater deal in lab than in classes. I think UROP has been an ... independent I’ll be in the lab. I think these three criteria were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  tossing around a Frisbee in front of Killian Court at dusk. I still remember ... course, I still remember the chirping crosswalk in front of 77 Mass Ave ... nothing in particular, but sometimes I still pause and think, "Wow, I'm at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in ... I was in looked like that, all wood paneling and a bit of dark gothic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  attending one of the most advanced universities in the world. I can’t tell you ... away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc ... in my hijab? When I found out about Muslim Women’s Day, I immediately

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... of judgement, and I have taken advantage of that trust. While I can ... .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the ... themselves are in many ways responsibilities - I am thoughtful and care deeply

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an entrepreneurial environment, a job in a consumer electronics company, a job where I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... thoroughly convinced that I can improve them with practice. The lab class, 6 ... -ops"]collectives[/annotation], and it requires thinking about the humanities in a way that I've never

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  's how I'm planning on approaching it anyway. In other news, I've fallen ... moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  like going to the gym or running. as you can see... i need to work on adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... clicking and dragging it forwards in time, whereas previously i would have

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as ... circumstances, I figured wandering around in order to get a better shot was

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  when it can do good. I'm also not implying "high-achieving good ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... accompanying sights beckon my eyes to rest. Each day that I work in Cambridge ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012